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Physiology and Musical Instruments

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This talk on human factors in the performance of wind instruments was presented at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cleveland, Ohio, held on November 19–21, 1968.

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BOUHUYS, A. Physiology and Musical Instruments. Nature 221, 1199–1204 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211199a0

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